Waking Up Ovitz
We hope that former superagent/Disney president-for-a-day Michael Ovitz hasn't packed away his nicest court suits, because he's being sued by a former pal and business partner Ron Burkle over some failed dot-coms. When billionaires sue mere hundred-millionaires over amounts equal to their Aspen ski chalet decorating budgets, things are guaranteed to get nasty:
Burkle said in a statement Thursday: "Every day I wake up, knowing I'm still Ron Burkle, not Michael Ovitz, and every day Michael Ovitz wakes up knowing he's still Michael Ovitz."
We're going to have to disagree with Gagillionaire Number One on this. By now Ovitz has certainly developed some kind of psychological coping mechanism where he wakes up imagining that he's someone who hasn't lost all of his power in Hollywood. (Say, Barry Diller?) Otherwise, he would've crashed a Disney shareholder meeting and dramatically self-immolated by now.